Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic ...

It’s no secret that walking robots are capable of navigating difficult and technical terrain more effectively than their their wheeled counterparts, but they also have a major limitation — they can’t ...

Orobates pabsti lived between 280 million and 290 million years ago, but it was pretty advanced at doing the locomotion. Using computer simulations, re-created skeletons, fossil trackways and a ...

Cornell researchers in physics and engineering have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that ...

This arrangement allows the robot to walk (alternately placing one foot in front of the other), hop over gaps or small obstacles, and jump up onto raised surfaces. RAVEN in land mode – although other ...

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